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Location of Clark County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Bourbon Iron Works, near Owingsville in Bath County, Kentucky, date from 1791. The works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] It was the first of six blast furnaces built in this area for the smelting of iron ore. Only the blast furnace stack survives. [2]
Lexington was laid out on 4 January 1836 by Asahel Gridley (1810–1881) and James Brown (c. 1802- ?). Gridley was a lawyer and banker from Bloomington who would eventually become the richest man in McLean County; Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and Lexington, Illinois, seems to have been his only attempt at founding a town. [5]
The Estill Steam Furnace, a blast furnace was established in about 1830. [2] A post office was established in the community in 1857, and named for the Estill Steam Furnace. This was shortened to Furnace in 1882. [3] The post office was discontinued in 1975. [4]
The book traces the history of “The Narcotic Farm” out Leestown Road near Masterson Station in Lexington, Ky. Photo Credit: Kentucky Historical Society (Kentucky Historical Society)
2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of downtown Lexington on Richmond Rd. Lexington: 4: Ashland Park Historic District: Ashland Park Historic District: March 31, 1986 : Roughly bounded by Ashland Ave., Richmond Rd., Chinoe Rd., and Fontaine Rd.
Middle Fork Kitchen Bar at the historic Distillery District in Lexington. ... 2010 in Lexington, Ky. Atomic Cafe. ... 15 photos of what fast-food restaurants looked like in the 1980s.
As Jim Crow laws took hold across the country, Black horsemen were shoved out of the business, and in 1933 the Kentucky Association Track in Lexington’s bustling East End was closed. The ...